@URI - try this link for the Starfinder template

During Outpost VII, we will be offering the following specials:
Pathfinder 1e 6-97 Siege of Serpents
Pathfinder 2e 3-99 Fate in the Future
Starfinder 2-00 Fate of the Scoured God

All prize vouchers have been emailed out. Congratulations to those that won the door prizes.

Please check your inbox (or spam folder) for a message titled "Gameday XII door prize"

Player Boons have been sent out, as has the first batch of GM boons. I am still waiting on several GMs to get back to me with their preference on boon selection.

Prize vouchers will start going out tonight.

I was making a list of the games I had played and GMed here (and elsewhere) so my VC could update his records and I noticed that my GMing if the Season 2 special for Gameday XII wasn't in the Paizo session list.

It should have been credited to Valea Quicksilver (124312-22 Concordance)

Could someone check it out please?

Oddly, the reported session (51) was completely blank. I have fixed it now.

Thanks to all the GMs and players. We had a HUGE showing and not a lot of problems on either side of the screen. We can't wait to see all of you again for Outpost VII.

Incidentally, the game (Tide of Morning) was Core. Based on the previous behavior of RPGChronicles, I figured I'd request that the PCs be reverted to Core status before the complaints start coming in. Let me know if you have any questions.

The game was cleanly reported as CORE by our fearless HQ team.

I finished my last game, but discovered that 3/4 of the players hadn't entered their data into RPGChronicles--I'll report as soon as they've done that.

^Similar situation; game is mostly done but I'm missing RPG Chronicles info for two players. As soon as I have that, I'll get 'er reported.

I've found that threatening to smother them with kisses works really well. YMMV

Gameday XII - That’s A Wrap!

187 games were registered, split almost evenly between GM Choice and First Come First Served recruitment. 96 GMs ran the games and hundreds of players joined them. What a great turnout!

Once the last few games get reported, we will be mailing out 50 randomly drawn prize vouchers, so make your offerings to the gods of chance, and may fortune be on your side. Also, at the same time we will be sending out those PF1 boons to the GMs and lucky players.

We want to hear your feedback, so please fill out this feedback form. Let us know what you liked, and how we can improve in the future. This form is anonymous, but if you want us to get back to you, please let us know how (paizo forum message, discord DM, or email).

Gameday XII feedback survey

Thank you all for participating in Gameday XII, and be on the lookout for the next PBP event, Outpost VII, coming this spring.

Gameday XII - That’s A Wrap!

187 games were registered, split almost evenly between GM Choice and First Come First Served recruitment. 96 GMs ran the games and hundreds of players joined them. What a great turnout!

Once the last few games get reported, we will be mailing out 50 randomly drawn prize vouchers, so make your offerings to the gods of chance, and may fortune be on your side. Also, at the same time we will be sending out those PF1 boons to the GMs and lucky players.

We want to hear your feedback, so please fill out this feedback form. Let us know what you liked, and how we can improve in the future. This form is anonymous, but if you want us to get back to you, please let us know how (paizo forum message, discord DM, or email).

Gameday XII feedback survey

Thank you all for participating in Gameday XII, and be on the lookout for the next PBP event, Outpost VII, coming this spring.

Gameday XII - That’s A Wrap!

187 games were registered, split almost evenly between GM Choice and First Come First Served recruitment. 96 GMs ran the games and hundreds of players joined them. What a great turnout!

Once the last few games get reported, we will be mailing out 50 randomly drawn prize vouchers, so make your offerings to the gods of chance, and may fortune be on your side. Also, at the same time we will be sending out those PF1 boons to the GMs and lucky players.

We want to hear your feedback, so please fill out this feedback form. Let us know what you liked, and how we can improve in the future. This form is anonymous, but if you want us to get back to you, please let us know how (paizo forum message, discord DM, or email).

Gameday XII feedback survey

Thank you all for participating in Gameday XII, and be on the lookout for the next PBP event, Outpost VII, coming this spring.

Only 2 Weeks Left!
GMs, with only 2 weeks left in Gameday XII play, you should be winding down your tables (assuming you aren’t already finished) and getting them ready for reporting by our HQ crew. Hopefully you are in a good place to finish by the Nov 20 end date, but if not, please go ahead and mark your tables Ready for Reporting by Nov 20 so we can wrap up the convention. Then, finish your games as soon as you can. If you need assistance in pushing your game to the finish, please contact your PBP lodge Venture Officers.

Only 2 Weeks Left!
GMs, with only 2 weeks left in Gameday XII play, you should be winding down your tables (assuming you aren’t already finished) and getting them ready for reporting by our HQ crew. Hopefully you are in a good place to finish by the Nov 20 end date, but if not, please go ahead and mark your tables Ready for Reporting by Nov 20 so we can wrap up the convention. Then, finish your games as soon as you can. If you need assistance in pushing your game to the finish, please contact your PBP lodge Venture Officers.

Only 2 Weeks Left!
GMs, with only 2 weeks left in Gameday XII play, you should be winding down your tables (assuming you aren’t already finished) and getting them ready for reporting by our HQ crew. Hopefully you are in a good place to finish by the Nov 20 end date, but if not, please go ahead and mark your tables Ready for Reporting by Nov 20 so we can wrap up the convention. Then, finish your games as soon as you can. If you need assistance in pushing your game to the finish, please contact your PBP lodge Venture Officers.

I'm planning to take the plunge and start GMing here in a few weeks. I've enjoyed the games I have played so far (thanks to some great GMs and fellow players) and would like to contribute back. I'll start with Q15: In the Footsteps of Horror and be running the low tier.

Looking back I've seen a few other people have started with an experienced GM playing at the table and mentoring them. Would anyone be interested in doing that?

Thank you for asking! I can think of several of our experienced GMs who would be happy to do this. Make sure you include a request for this in your recruitment post, along with some way for interested mentors to identify themselves. If you don't have any takes (and I would find that extremely unlikely), then DM me and I would be happy to join in.

I think there's been a problem reporting CORE Campaign games. My Core game of Year of the Shadow lodge got reported as Standard Campaign.

It appears my Core "Race for the Runecarved Key" Special from last year's GameDay may have been reported as Standard as well.

Along with other Core games.

Can the reporting be fixed and all PCs be converted back to Core?

Looking at the records, unless someone changed the reporting it was reported as Core and all the PCs are still listed as Core according to the admin tools I have access to. If you or your players are still seeing conflict, then it will definitely need to be escalated to Alex.

Bertram recaptures his spellbook and moved through the painting to follow the others. As he stepped through, the book coughed up a piece of paper. Looking at it, Bert said, "Okay, who is teaching my spellbook fart jokes? As if I didn't know?"

He inspected the statues in the garden with both his eyes and arcane senses to see if there was anything interesting about them.

perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15
arcana: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14

GM-curious player here. I second #1 & #2 from eddv's post above.

...

Despite all that, I feel guilty only being a player. It feels like I'm only taking and never giving, so I am planning to run my first PbP game soon-ish. Wish me luck!

Good luck!

If you ever have questions about the PBP side of things, I am happy to answer as best I can. please send me a DM here on the paizo forums, or pop onto any of the discord lodges and DM be (I am bigrin42 everywhere.)

I like this idea. As a long-time 1e GM just starting to pick up 2e, it would be nice to see adventures designed and tagged for those learning to GM the system.

Currently, I have to look through available 1-4 adventures and rely on the reviews to see if a given adventure takes a more experienced GM or not. Having some scenarios designed around introducing GMs would alleviate that.

Have I got a deal for you!

Soon we will be starting up a PBP GM School where those topics and more will be covered, as well as giving every "student" a chance to run a short bounty or quest for the others, with guidance and mentorship. It is geared towards PBP, but the majority of topics will apply to GMs of all game formats.

If you have questions, please send me a DM here on the paizo forums, or pop onto any of the discord lodges and DM be (I am bigrin42 everywhere.)

As a player who is relatively new to RPGs (only since the summer of Covid) and is even newer to Pathfinder, I am interested in GMing and have already mentioned it to the local Ventureperson (I don’t know her rank offhand).

My biggest concern is exactly the concern I had when I first GMed for my kids, and later my friends. As a brand new GM, I felt that the adventure was vague in ways that forced some degree of adlibbing and/or improvisation. Not knowing the world or all the rules, that’s intimidating. I’m also an engineer, whereas my friend who is our regular GM was an English major and he has done this for years.

I would *love* to see some adventures written with a lot of handholding for new GMs. Even giving guidance and/or examples of how to deal with players not following the script the GM is reading would be an immense help. I don’t know how practical it would be, but it would definitely make it easier to onboard potential GMs who share my fears/concerns.

Have I got a deal for you!

Soon we will be starting up a PBP GM School where those topics and more will be covered, as well as giving every "student" a chance to run a short bounty or quest for the others, with guidance and mentorship. It is geared towards PBP, but the majority of topics will apply to GMs of all game formats.

If you have questions, please send me a DM here on the paizo forums, or pop onto any of the discord lodges and DM be (I am bigrin42 everywhere.)

Alex Speidel wrote:

And if you're a player who's GM-curious, what would get you to the other side of the screen? How can we support you as you take the first steps into running games?

Help with the 'technical' side of things. I've run many in-person tables during the LG and LA era but not Pathfinder. However the Google Slides, maps, etc. are the real stumbling block for me since I've never used them except as a player.

Well, we as a community can definitely help with that. I have a "PBP GM Handbook over on the Roll for Combat discord server that is about 80% generalizable that I am planning on making available to all PBP lodges in a general format soon. I can provide that, as well as answer any questions you may have.

Please send me a DM here on the paizo forums, or pop onto any of the discord lodges and DM be (I am bigrin42 everywhere.)

Yeah...sorry about that. I think I signed up to test some of the automation and forgot to delete. I'm afraid I can't play in the specials this time around.

Secret Door Prize winners

I have a little surprise for our Gameday XII GMs. In appreciation of all your hard work and in preparation for this event and your commitment to keeping this community going strong, I coughed up one $50 prize voucher to be given away to a random GM at each of our participating lodges (paizo forums, Cayden’s Keg, Find the Path, and Roll for Combat).

Our winners are:

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

As of now 00:00 GMT+0 September 4 Gameday XII is live! Players and GMs alike, have fun!

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

As of now 00:00 GMT+0 September 4 Gameday XII is live! Players and GMs alike, have fun!

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

As of now 00:00 GMT+0 September 4 Gameday XII is live! Players and GMs alike, have fun!

Okay, I've done play by discord, but not play by post on here....so, can someone point me to relevant info? How to set avatar, style guide (if different from the PbP discords), how to find my game (GM Super Zero's PF2 1-04)?

Thanks in advance!

I'll start in reverse...

You can find your IC and OOC channels on the Gameday XII Event Listing spreadsheet.

The paizo forums uses BBCODE formatting, as seen in the "How to format your text" spoiler below the text input box.

PRO TIP: The paizo site likes to eat posts and then pretend nothing ever happened. ALWAYS copy your post to the clipboard (or similar) before hitting the Submit Post or Preview button.

PROTIP #2: You can use the Preview button to make sure your formatting is correct, but also to see your rolls ahead of time, so you can craft your post to match the roll. Fail a Stealth roll? Maybe your character sneezed.

As for setting your avatar, go to your Organized Play page and click the Edit button to the right of the PC you want to set. Set the character image to one of paizo's curated list of avatars.

QM rainzax wrote:

Hello!

GM for "Quest #8: Shadows of the Black Sovereign" which is listed on the spreadsheet as a "1st-4th" quest is actually a "3rd-6th" quest.

Can someone please fix cell "32-F" to properly reflect this?

Cheers.

The above issue was never addressed.

And, as I have only two players signed up as of writing this, may I instead pivot to offer them a Repeatable Quest in the same Level Range?

Too late?

Cheers.

I apologize for missing this earlier. I have updated the level range for you. I also notice that there are now 3 players signed up. Hopefully you can get another in the next week or so, maybe with some advertising?

If you truly want to shift to a different scenario, I would highly recommend clearing that with your players first.

Question:

Could one play the special with 2 chars (one CORE, one standard) at the same time (=in this event)?
If yes, does it have be in a different tier?

I already signed up for CORE 3-4, but I could send another character to either the standard 1-2 or 3-4 table to help make a legal table size...

Yes, Kaervek78, that is certainly allowed, since they are technically different systems and you would be playing on different PCs. Enjoy!

Can someone mark both my dark archive games full?

I can take care of that for you, but you should be able to mark it yourself. That's one of the reasons we are using the spreadsheet and not the website.

Hello,

Excuse me, I dont notice until now a proble with my two tables (both Pf1e Core, both 0-24).

I named both tables in rpgchronicles as "CORE 1-2" and "CORE 6-7". I put in the initial excel that both are core... but rpg chronicles only allow to choose "PF1e", not "PF1e core".

Now all characters are not core because thesse tables are reported as pf1e normal.

May some one help me to solve this issue, putting these tables as "core" (and recovering core condition to the characters)?

Regards

Ethelnir
VC León (Spain)

Ethelnir, that is definitely a limitation of RPGChronicles. I will have Phox look into it on that end for the future.

In the meantime, since Outpost was over months ago, the only solution I have for you is to email pfsreportingerrors@paizo.com and explain the issue. Your players may have to do this independently as well.

I am truly sorry that this has been an issue for you and your players, and hopefully we can get this issue resolved quickly.

Hey Gameday GMs, the sheet is now unlocked for you to sign up early. Remember to limit your early signups to 1 FCFS table and 1 special table only

Hey Gameday GMs, the sheet is now unlocked for you to sign up early. Remember to limit your early signups to 1 FCFS table and 1 special table only

Hey Gameday GMs, the sheet is now unlocked for you to sign up early. Remember to limit your early signups to 1 FCFS table and 1 special table only

Hey Gameday GMs, the sheet is now unlocked for you to sign up early. Remember to limit your early signups to 1 FCFS table and 1 special table only

One question, since I've never run one before: do I have to apply the GM chronicle to a character in the same tier that I ran?

I believe you can apply the credit to any PC in a tier that the special can be run at, following the normal rules for applying credit (one PC per tier, etc.)

Okay folks, it has been a week now and lots of GMs are starting to register games. We want to give everyone a chance to see what is being run (both GMs and players), so here is the link to the event listing.

More games will be added every few games as GMs register their tables. Remember that no signups will be allowed before the August 7 date (and anyone that manages to add themselves as a player before will will be deleted).

Gameday XII Event Listing

I would love to play in (or potentially GM) a Pathfinder first edition special. I've never done:

# 2-S: Year of the Shadow Lodge - 3 tables
# 5-S: Siege of the Diamond City - 5 tables
Ruins of Bonekeep, Level Two no minimum
# 6-00: Legacy of the Stonelords - 5 tables
# 8-00: The Cosmic Captive - 6 tables
# 9-00: Assault on Absalom - 5 tables

Great! Find another 3-5 GMs so we can meet table minimums and we can make that happen.

Alternatively, if we can't make it happen this time around, let's see if we can't find the necessary number of GMs and players in time for Outpost in the Spring of '24.

I screwed up and submitted the wrong scenario in the GM Registration. What should I do?

DM me the pertinent info (what you messed up, what you intended, etc)

ANNOUNCING PLAY-BY-POST GAMEDAY XII

PbP Gameday XII Event # 2713068
When: September 4, 2023 - November 20, 2023

Secondary HQ location: Our channel on the Organized Play Discord at PFSchat.com #pbp_gameday_xii

Reporting Links
We will be using RPG Chronicles for signup management and reporting. [u]If you have an RPG Chronicles account[/u], you can manage signups and chronicle generation (including emailing chronicles to your players) simply by logging into your existing RPG Chronicles account and using the Gameday XII event code.

[u]If you do not have an RPG Chronicles account[/u] and don’t wish to create one, no problem. Simply click the link below to report as a “guest GM”.

Gameday XII Reporting

For more information about using RPG Chronicles for reporting, please check out this link

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Greetings Pathfinders, Starfinders, & Pathfinder Adventure Card Game enthusiasts!

We’re all very excited to announce the upcoming PBP Gameday XII! I will try to keep this as brief as possible so that folks can find all the information quickly. We will be having adventures of all sizes, including quests, bounties, scenarios, and even the latest multi-table specials!

We welcome Society players and GMs of all experience levels, from grizzled veterans to wide-eyed newcomers.

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Important dates:

GM DarkLightHitomi wrote:

I thought all the internet counted as the online lodge. It doesn't?

During my tenure as Venture Captain, I spent a lot of time defining what counted as one of our Online Lodges and what did not, because the internet is a vast and amorphous thing, and serving as the Venture Officer for the entire internet would have made my head explode. Having our territory be specific online lodges where there was a strong and visible venture officer presence that could answer questions and head off problems made so much more sense. It's the Venture Officers that make a lodge a lodge.

And you'll note I said "Lodges" not "Lodge." Like in-person spaces, online lodges happen at specific locations like our forum here or various discord channels.

Specifically, our official online Lodges are:

Paizo forums:
Flaxseed (Pathfinder 1e) - PBP
Cottonseed (Pathfinder 2e) - PBP
Castommir Station (Starfinder) - PBP

Discord Lodges:
Organized Play Online (OPO) - VTT/PBP
Cayden's Keg - VTT/PBP
Find the Path - VTT/PBP
Roll for Combat - VTT/PBP
Cosmic Crit - VTT
Glass Cannon - VTT
Russian Online - VTT
Italian Online - VTT
German Online - VTT

That’s A Wrap!

163 games were reported, split almost evenly between GM Choice and First Come First Served recruitment. 86 GMs ran the games and hundreds of players joined them. What a great turnout!

Once the last few games get reported, we will be mailing out 50 randomly drawn prize vouchers, so make your offerings to the gods of chance, and may fortune be on your side.

We want to hear your feedback, so please fill out this feedback form. Let us know what you liked, and how we can improve in the future. This form is anonymous, but if you want us to get back to you, please let us know how (paizo forum message, discord DM, or email).

Outpost VI feedback survey

Thank you all for participating in Outpost VI - Strange-ish Things, and be on the lookout for the next PBP event, Gameday XII, coming this fall.

The guest GM link in the first post takes me to my shopping cart instead of an event. How do I report my table for SFS 1-99?

Hey chuckles. Apparently that link has changed since it was posted and tested. Here is the

GUEST GM REPORTING LINK

Race for the Runecarved Key is 4-00 for sure.

Bonekeep is 4-00-3E

Odd, yes?

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

As of now 00:00 GMT+0 March 6 Outpost VI is live! Players and GMs alike, have fun!

As a lifelong RPG player, having started with the Basic D&D box set in '82 and having played every edition of D&D and not a few non-D&D RPGs since, who received P2e for Christmas; I sit here reading this thread a month after its posting and wondering "so where is all the new-player, OGL-refugee welcoming effort?

I mean - I have my PFS number, but the closest recorded lodge is over 2 hours away and hasn't responded to my attempted contacts. It makes me wonder if they simply went dark during the pandemic and are now defunct. The few organized play games I find for Feb/March are states away.

It seems that it should be as simple as "Thank you for your order, newb. Now go _here_ to create a Pathfinder Society identity, then go _here_ to locate the closest local lodge. And look _here_ to find the next Organized Play event near you. Welcome to the Society, recruit. See you ate the table."

Welcome to the Pathfinder side of the pond, newb! DM me with your location and I'll be happy to help you find some Society games in your local area. Also, if you are interested in playing online games, whether live games via Virtual Table top (VTT) or via Play by Post (PBP) we have a thriving community both here on the paizo servers and on a number of Discord lodges. Again, I'd be happy to help point you in the right direction if you are interested.

I apologize that it isn't as easy to hook new Society players up with local lodges as it should be. That has been a long-standing issue that we are starting (I hope) to come to grips with. We have to strike a balance between accessibility and privacy issues and so far have managed to come down hard on the privacy side of things. I would love to hear some suggestions, if you have them, on how to help our volunteers be more accessible for new players.

In the meantime, please DM me here on the forums, or via discord (bigrin42#2231) and 'll be happy to do what I can to get you connected in Real Life and/or online.

Brad G.
Venture Captain - Online (PBP)

P.S. I know it's easy for those of us that have been involved in Society for a long time to say how open and friendly we are, and then leave newcomers in the lurch when it comes to details. I hope anyone with issues getting started or connected with Society games will call out for help and get connected with a Venture Officer who can guide and direct. After all, we're supposed to be a community of gamers, and what's better for community than welcoming growth?

Please cancel my Starfinder game Archivist's Inquiry, 5-11 on line 58 of FCFS.

Done

Doug, sorry this happened. We actually have a policy to notify people when they have been removed, and I am sorry it wasn't followed this time. Please DM me the player info so I can follow up and make sure they are given the chance to participate.

I've been looking but my offering of PFS1e 3-08 Among the G0ds hasn't appeared on the list.

Could someone look into that please?

@phaeton I haven't received a submission from you. Could you please use the GM Registration form to re-submit?

Can you withdraw my Breaking the Storm: Parting the Clouds game (row 522 of FCFS)? I suspect people want to play the whole series, and I am going to be a bit crunched on time to run the special and a high-tier game.

Thank you,

Doug

@Doug I will go ahead and remove that one from the list.